Wrapping jQuery Ajax Convenience Methods: Good idea or bad idea

We're using jQuery's load() function a lot throughout our application. We've discovered, quite embarrassingly I might add, that we need better error handling. So instead of

we need to use

So that we can check the status and deal with things appropriately. I'm thinking of writing a wrapper around load() (among other things) that would allow us to write code like this (function name for demo only):

But as I look at that, it makes me think I should just use the $.ajax() function instead, since I can already do that. So what would be a better "standard"? Wrap the convenience methods or just fall back to .ajax() ?

Yea, I'm already doing that for some things. However, these error handling bits aren't all generic. For example, in this one instance on a load() call, I am showing and hiding some elements on success. But if there was an error, I don't want to show/hide things. I need to basically not do anything.

Bear Bibeault wrote:I generally fall back to $.ajax in similar circumstances, unless it's something that will be done again and again and again, in which case extending/wrapping would be a decent approach.

That's what I figured and just needed that confirmation. Thanks.

I’ve looked at a lot of different solutions, and in my humble opinion Aspose is the way to go. Here’s the link: http://aspose.com